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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Generators can also be deadly. Even making sure it's outside isn't enough. 50% of carbon monoxide deaths from generators were from generators that were outside.
Edit. Of course using a car with an ICE for the same reasons is also dangerous.
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I have no idea where you got that stat but the Consumer Product Safety Commision says only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes between 2004 and 2013 are from generators being used outside. In the overwhelming majority of fatalities the generators were being used in the basement, garage or inside the home.
https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-educatio...onoxide-deaths
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
This does bring up a question though. What battery would work in a cold climate like mine? Or what can be done to keep one from freezing? We still have several feet of snow and quite a while before it's warm again.
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The LFP batteries I'm buying discharge from -4F to 140F and charge from 32F to 113F. Some LFP batteries have internal heaters to keep themselves in their operating range. Lead Acid batteries have an operating range from -40F to 131F.
Unlike gas generators you can store batteries inside to keep them warm.
Before I had solar my back-up system was my Prius as a generator: 12V Prius battery attached to a deep cycle battery - attached to 12V inverter. The Prius steadily charges the 12V batteries with a DC to DC inverter. When in Ready mode it will cycle the engine automatically on and off to charge the hybrid battery.
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
I'm not saying that someone who know's what he or she's doing shouldn't be able to use a generator. But we live in a society that had things like FM on phones and AM and FM in cars, but since "nobody cared" it's being taken away. There doesn't seem to be any classes that I know of for emergency preparedness. People in general don't have a clue. And when things go wrong, they'll have been set up for failure. How much that's their own fault and how much that's big corporations' fault, I don't know. All I know is that the general public doesn't care and nobody seems to care about the general public.
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https://www.redcross.org/get-help/ho...ergencies.html
Completely free - people just need to take a bit of time to research
From the local extension agency (Every state has one) - how to prep my water supply in case of a major earthquake:
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9285/html